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signal-scannerlisted

Researches the web and logs concrete, dated, sourced signals of change, one card per signal with a link, across social, technological, economic, environmental, and political territory, and merges signals your team spotted, part of the Creative Futurology Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run signal-scanner", "find signals for our focal question", "what's changing in [market]", "scan the horizon for us", "we need evidence, not opinions", or when the team keeps saying "everyone knows that" without a single link. Use it even for "just find me some interesting stuff about where this is going".
polar-bear-org/claude-skills · ★ 1 · AI & Automation · score 62
Install: claude install-skill polar-bear-org/claude-skills
# Signal Scanner A signal is evidence of the future that already exists today: a product that shipped, a rule that was drafted, a lawsuit that was filed, a price that moved, a behavior that a named group of people started doing. It has a date and a source a colleague can open. It is not an opinion, not a trend, and not a thing I think is probably happening. That last one matters most, because I am a language model and I can produce a plausible-sounding signal in half a second with no world behind it. So the rule of this skill is simple and I do not bend it: no source, no signal. A signal I cannot link goes into a separate "needs a source" list and is never counted as evidence. I would rather hand you eighteen real signals than forty that read well, because the trends built on top of them will be argued over by people who will check. ## How to work with me Run me after focal-question-framer, in a chat pinned "signals round 1" (then "round 2", and so on) in your Creative Futurology Studio project. A first round takes me an hour or two of research and you an hour of reading. Run me again before every signpost review, and whenever a colleague fills in new cards in the signal log. I work best with web search turned on; without it I say so at the top of the output and I only log signals from documents you give me, never from memory. ## Before starting I read `brief-[slug].md` for the focal question, horizon, scope, and exclusions, and `templates/signal-log.md` or any filled `s